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Lawn-Mower.
Patent for improvements on lawn mowers with "drive wheels and an adjustable cutting mechanism [...] held in adjusted positions by means releasable by the propelling handle" (lines 10-15). This allows "adjusted positions to cut grass of different lengths without the necessity of the operator stooping" (lines 21-23), including illustrations.
Date:
May 23, 1916
Creator:
Martin, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tailor's-Goose Attachment.
Patent for a tailor's goose which provides a "depressible and detachable dampening means for the goose for supplying water to the dampening means".
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
Talley, Thurmon H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Insect Destroyer
Patent for a mechanical insect destroyer. This invention is for use in the destruction of house flies. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 30, 1910
Creator:
Truelove, Jesse R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil-Treating Machine.
Patent for a soil-treating machine that makes short furrows in the soil for the purpose of irrigation by retaining rain water or snow.
Date:
April 29, 1913
Creator:
Haralson, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fly Trap
Patent for a fly trap. Illustration included.
Date:
January 10, 1911
Creator:
Moncus, Joseph Gideon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seeder and Planter.
Patent for an improved design for a device which can plant corn seeds, and with slight modification, cotton seeds.
Date:
April 14, 1914
Creator:
Norris, Samuel E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Operating Device
Patent for Window-Operating Devices
Date:
February 20, 1917
Creator:
Martin, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Tongue
Patent for wagon tongue that is designed to relieve the draft animals of shock caused by the flapping of a tongue.
Date:
February 27, 1917
Creator:
Pearcy, Robert B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History